SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries held a special ceremony along with the U.S. Embassy in Seoul to “adopt” Masian Beach in Incheon’s Yeongjongdo Island, 60 kilometers west of Seoul. The “adopt a beach” program brings participants to select a beach and take care of it as their own. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — One in 5 foreign nationals staying in South Korea are illegal immigrants, with the number of undocumented immigrants rising to nearly 400,000, government data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Justice, 395,068 foreigners were staying in the country without a valid visa in July, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of recreational water leisure items marked a sharp increase during the January to July period of this year compared to a year ago thanks to the return of everyday life after the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Korea Customs Service, the nation’s imports of recreational water [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of cases officially deemed as child abuse incidents in South Korea grew 21.7 percent in 2021 from a year ago amid an increase in reports to authorities for intervention, a government report showed Wednesday. According to an annual welfare ministry report submitted to the National Assembly, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to 6 in 10 South Koreans believe the current COVID-19 situation to be serious, a poll showed Tuesday. A research team from Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health conducted a nationwide survey of 1,000 South Koreans men and women over 18 years of age, 59.2 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will unveil the Styler Shoecase and Shoecare at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA), the biggest annual electronics fair in Europe, set to open on Sept. 2. The total shoe care solution stores shoes at an optimum humidity and temperature and can also be used to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Fans flocked to “SM Town Live 2022: SMCU EXPRESS,” which was held for the first time in three years at the Tokyo Dome in Japan from Saturday to Monday. The festival, hosted by SM Entertainment, starred BoA, Super Junior, SHINee, Red Velvet, NCT, aespa and other SM artists. Fans [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-charging of hydrogen-powered vehicles will become possible at Incheon International Airport starting from Tuesday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced that it had launched a hydrogen vehicle self-serve demonstration for the general public at the hydrogen charging station located in the airport’s Terminal 2 run by hydrogen [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — After narrowing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the wage gap between employees of large companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is showing signs of expanding again due to the rapid recovery of large companies’ wage growth rate. The wage level of SMEs in proportion to that of large companies [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean metaverse users, which plunged after the lifting of social distancing rules earlier this year, started increasing again in late July. According to Mobile Index, the big data analysis unit of local data tracker IGAworks, the number of domestic weekly active users (WAU) for the [...]